A defense of Medicare for All and an attack on both parties over corporate money in politics, framed as bad news for the health insurance industry and big political donors.

• Abdul El-Sayed is being called a socialist and communist by Republicans, but he has repeatedly called himself a capitalist — the labels are meant to scare voters who don't know what they mean.
• A new Yale study says Medicare for All would save 114,000 American lives and a trillion dollars a year, mostly by cutting paperwork, drug prices, and insurance overhead.
• Trump's "big beautiful bill" cut Medicaid and let Obamacare subsidies expire, so up to 15 million people could lose coverage, while the rich got a $1.1 trillion tax cut.
• Middle-class families are set to pay about $900 more in taxes in 2026, and the tax breaks for regular people expire soon while the ones for the rich and corporations never do.
• The core argument: legalized bribery through corporate and foreign donors keeps politicians robbing voters, and getting money out of politics is the only fix.

Outlook: The push is to vote out incumbents and back a constitutional amendment banning big money in politics, with more well-funded establishment candidates expected to lose primaries.